Henry, you're right about using dedicated listener port on unix. Oracle on Windows use random ports by default. Try to search definition of USE_SHARED_SOCKET parameter. Kind regards, Edward Shevtsov Henry Poras wrote: > Just wondering if one of my strongly held untested assumptions is wrong. I > always thought that when you connected to Oracle via the listener in > dedicated server mode, you would come in via the listener port (i.e. 1521, > 1526). The listener would then validate, spawn off a shadow oracleSID process > using some arbitrary port, and the client would then be passed to this > process with the listener butting out at that point. The client would then be > connected to the database through that arbitrary port. > Last week a developer and myself checked this out. He sniffed the coming and > going of packets, and everything used only port 1521. I looked at netstat (I > think the parameters were asp (RedHat AS3 OS) but I'm not sure. That info is > at work but I'm not at the moment) and the only active Oracle ports were also > 1521. Are other ports used? Is this dependent on load? I searched metalink > and found the question asked, but no answers were ever posted. > > Thanks. > > Henry > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l